Experience

Saica Natur UK Limited
• United Kingdom
• Freight and Package Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Plant Manager, England

  • May 2023 - Present

Beatson Clark
• United Kingdom
• Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Recycling Plant Manager

  • Feb 2019 - May 2023


Interserve

• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• National Waste Manager

  • Nov 2013 - Jan 2019

  The position was managing all the waste generated at Defra sites throughout England and Wales. I employed by Interserve; however, it reported to Defra Estates as they generated the waste and owned the incinerators and environmental permits at Defra’s largest R&D facilities in Surrey. Engaged with Defra stakeholders and regulatory authorities demonstrating compliance with all legislation. I managed waste contracts worth over £2m. Responsible for managing the waste disposal for over one hundred Defra sites including biological, chemical, animal and general waste. The position required engagement with many Defra stakeholders of varying seniority at locations across England and Wales. Working for Defra, compliance had to be 100% correct with consideration being given to the environment before cost, as Defra must lead by example. By engaging with key Defra stakeholders, was able to identify what Defra’s immediate and long-term requirements were for waste management including biological waste security. The immediate challenge was the age of the incinerators; with many key components not being supported by the manufactories. These components had to be identified, risk rated as to the impact if they failed and what mitigation could be put in place to manage the risk. After engaging with numerous suppliers, wrote a project proposal for Defra, stating the risks associated with the project, a programme of works and how value could be demonstrated. The project was approved by Defra stakeholders and was due to start in April 2019. During the engagement with suppliers it became apparent that the only long-term solution was to replace the incinerators with new fit for purpose incinerators, with energy recovery. Developed a business case and presented this to various stakeholders within Defra. Funding was secured to develop the business case and scope of works, which resulted in the go ahead of a multimillion-pound project to replace the current incinerators. Show less



Pagdin Environmental

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services

• Waste Management Consultant

  • Oct 2010 - Nov 2013

  November 2010 – December 2011 I was on a 1 year contract as the Waste and Environmental Manager at the NATO airbase in Kandahar. Kandahar Airbase is the largest military airbase in the world with over 30,000 people on the base and it came under daily Taliban rocket attack. I was responsible for collecting and managing all waste generated on site. The waste generated included everything you would expect in a town plus many unique waste streams including hazardous waste, medical wastes and ammunitions. Waste is segregated for recycling, incineration or reuse. Being a military base in a war zone brings its own very unique challenges. The challenges include trying to operate to European environmental and H&S standards, communication with 120 employees from every corner of the world, arranging transportation of hazardous chemical and battery waste to Europe for disposal, maintaining operation of recycling equipment and incinerators with limited spares and long lead time for spare parts, advising military and civilian contractors on Best Environmental Options. In addition I was leading an Engineer Construct Procure team for a new waste management facility on site including small MRF and modern incineration capability. University of York (20,000 staff & students) I was tasked with reducing the amount of waste going to landfill and reducing costs. To achieve these tough targets, I looked at the existing systems in place and analysed all the available data. The data showed that the existing systems were not efficient, some areas of the University were not compliant with legislation and some contracts were not value for money. I introduced campus wide commingled recycling. The biggest challenge was removing food waste from the general waste to anaerobic digestion. These and other actions allowed the residual waste to go to a MRF for sorting. This reduced the landfill waste from 72% down to 10%. Show less